The Uzbek President Islam Karimov approved the programme with his resolution from 1 July 2009.

The programme envisages measures such as vaccination, organization of workshops, improvement skills of medical system’s employees, improvement knowledge of population, media campaign, etc.

The resolution said about 44.973 billion soums and US$99.968 million will be directed to realization of the programme in 2009-2013. The state budget will allocate 30.433 billion soums and US$10.813 million.

Grants, credits and loans of international organizations and foreign countries will make up US$88.153 million. Programme executors and sponsors will issue 14.54 billion soums and US$1.001 million.

UNFPA, UNECEF, European Union, ADB, German government and others will finance the programme.